Before you begin Entire Net-Work Client installation, ensure that the following prerequisites have been met:
If you are installing an Entire Net-Work Client, close (stop) all open applications, especially those applications interacting with or depending on your Adabas databases. This includes Natural, the Adabas DBA Workbench, and prior releases of Entire Net-Work.
If prior versions of Entire Net-Work Client are installed on your system, uninstall them before installing this version.
Disable any antivirus software.
Ensure the target computer is connected to the network.
Verify the license key files are copied somewhere in your environment or have the diskette available. Entire Net-Work Client will not run without valid license keys. For more information, read Entire Net-Work License Key.
Read the Entire Net-Work Client Release Information and Configuration Considerations.
Before you install Entire Net-Work Clientin a UNIX environment, we recommend you read Installing and Setting Up Software AG Products on UNIX and UNIX Installation Considerations.
The installation of Entire Net-Work Client should occur in two stages and in the following order:
Entire Net-Work Client Management Component Installation. The management components used by Entire Net-Work Client are the System Management Hub (SMH) and the Software AG Directory Server. If these components have not already been installed in your enterprise, install them first.
If SMH has already been installed in your enterprise by other Software AG products, you will still need to run the installation for SMH provided with Entire Net-Work Client. This is because the Entire Net-Work Client agents for SMH need to be installed. If they are not, you will not be able to administer the product in SMH.
If the Directory Server has already been installed in your enterprise by other Software AG products, you do not need to install it again -- although multiple installations of the Directory Server are allowed (read Installation Considerations for the Software AG Directory Server for more details.
Entire Net-Work Client Installation. An Entire Net-Work Client should be installed on every machine from which an Adabas database needs to be accessed.
Once all of these installation phases are complete, you should not need to configure the management components much for Entire Net-Work Client. The defaults supplied in the Entire Net-Work Client installations work for most organizations. This is especially true of the Directory Server settings in SMH. Once the appropriate management components and Clients are installed, we recommend that you try to use Entire Net-Work Client in a test environment prior to attempting to configure it.
Complete descriptions of these components and how they are used by Entire Net-Work Client can be found in your Entire Net-Work 7 documentation.
